Re: [Chicken-users] Build Failure (maybe infinite recursion) on x86_64 Linux

[felix winkelmann]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Taylor Venable <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When building Chicken 3.4.7 and higher (up to 3.5.2) on Ubuntu 8.10
> x86_64 the chicken compiler goes into an infinite recursion.  CPU
> usage spikes, memory usage increases boundlessly, and no output is
> ever produced.  In Chicken 3.4.7 the file that when compiled triggers
> this behaviour is utils.scm and for a build process I am using:
>
>    make PLATFORM=linux bootstrap
>    make PLATFORM=linux CHICKEN=./chicken-boot
>
> The command that causes the infinite recursion is:
>
>    ./chicken-boot utils.scm -quiet -no-trace -optimize-level 2
> -include-path . -include-path ./ -explicit-use -output-file utils.c
>
> If any other information would be helpful to diagnose this, let me
> know and I can provide it.  Thanks for any help.

Hi, Taylor!

Thanks for reporting this. If you say "infinite recursion", is there anything
that indicates an actual recursion? Or does it just hang? Can you invoke
the command above with an additional "-debug p" and show me the
output?


cheers,
felix